The Red Mansion is so charming

Chapter 121

Because Mrs. Wang couldn't come back to celebrate her son's birthday, she sent Zhou Rui's family back to deliver a letter to Aunt Xue, at least for the sake of watching their sisters, so don't make Baoyu feel wronged.

Aunt Xue didn't choose her daughter because Yuanchun, but kept Xue Baoqin in the palace. She felt uncomfortable all the time, and she even complained to Mrs. Wang. .

However, she is also soft-hearted, and she is not as decisive as Xue Baochai. Even if Miss Bao is full of vigor and strategy, she has a mother who changes from day to day, and there is nothing she can do about it.

In addition, Mrs. Wang's companion, Mrs. Zhou Rui's family, is used to being a smooth-tongued master, and Aunt Xue couldn't help being moved by a single sentence, and felt that she should support her sister, Mrs. Wang, in Rongfu.So when he heard that Mrs. Xing's family had come, he hurriedly took Baochai into the garden.

More than half of Rongning Second Mansion have heard about Zhengde, and everyone is envious of Mrs. Xing's good fortune. Raising a son may not be successful, but look at the child they adopted, eating and drinking, and raising them for five or six years , suddenly became a prince and grandson, and everyone couldn't help but slander: Who can have this opportunity, it's not a gift from God!

Mrs. You and Mrs. Xing are just like Mrs. Xing, who are continuing to fill in the house, have no children, are not related to the heirs left by the former wife, and live in a muddle.Only now did I realize that the eyeball-like young master of the Xing family was not his own!How strange is this called You Shi?
Tanchun and Li Wan had already dispatched the small kitchen to make a feast for the Ouxiangxie. The imperial court forbade the family of officials and eunuchs to raise small opera actors, and the banquet had music, so Tanchun asked someone to invite a female husband who told jokes outside. .

There were low tables set up on the east, west, south and south sides of the Ou Champs, with all kinds of food, fruits and vegetables. Lu Shi couldn't refuse, so he sat on the right seat, and only smiled with Jia Baoyu and others: "You are impatient to accompany us old bones. Let's go play in the garden, it's enough to be accompanied by Mrs. Dongfu and my concubine." She also detained Zhengde and Qiaojie by her side, not allowing them to follow.

Jia Baoyu couldn't wait for Lu Shi to say this, with a smile on his face, he hurriedly led everyone to his Yihong Courtyard.

Xiuyan held Daiyu on her arm, and she just lowered her head and chatted with Xue Baochai along the way.

Before I knew it, I arrived at Yihong Courtyard. At that time, the people who came to worship the birthday almost didn't break through the threshold. The birthday party was not there, so Xiren decided to keep them first, and asked Si'er and Chunyan to go to Liu's house to buy hot cakes and fresh fruits. When the son came, he took out half a bag of the good tea that Baoyu often ate, ordered Qiuwen to cook it himself, and gave it to everyone to drink.

Before Baoyu and the others entered the door, they heard chattering and croaking outside, and Shi Xiangyun laughed and said, "Brother love, the birthday worshipers broke through the door, why don't you ask Xiren to bring birthday noodles to eat with us!"

When the people in the house heard the movement, they all came out to welcome them. It turned out that there were eight or nine people, including Cuimo, Cuilu, Ruhua, Cailuan and Xiuluan, all of whom came with red felt cushions.

Baoyu was so happy that he gave way, and everyone sat down.Xue Baochai, Coco Li, Li Qi and other sisters presented the birthday presents prepared by Xiuyan, such as a calligraphy and painting, a handkerchief, or a pendant, just for the occasion.

Even Shi Xiangyun brought a pair of exquisite embroidered shoes, which made Xiuyan take a second look.

"Sister Xing, this is my wish." Jia Baoyu also had a pair of shoes, but they were very different from Shi Xiangyun's.

The exquisite embroidery is second to none. It is rare that the shoes are embellished with a circle of water-filled emerald fruits, each of which is as big as a quail egg handle.

The faces of Xue Baochai and others changed a little, and Tanchun asked in a low voice, "Where did the second brother get so much money?"

Jia Baoyu smiled triumphantly: "I didn't buy it with money, but I won it from the King of Beijing through a bet. I heard that the jade shoes were originally intended to be given to the princess by the King of Beijing."

Xiuyan smiled and pushed the jade shoes back: "I don't dare to take away people's love."

"It's not to win people's love. The king of the county knew that I was going to send my sister as a gift for Fangchen, and said it was too simple. Please don't dislike it, sister Xing!"

"Brother Bao, it doesn't matter. If you say it like this, I don't dare to make mistakes. Even our wife doesn't wear a pair of such good shoes. If I don't know how to properly accept Brother Bao's gift, I won't let outsiders in Despise me behind my back for being vulgar and unruly?"

Baoyu was originally in high spirits, but when he heard Xing Xiuyan's words, he immediately lowered his head.

The attacker couldn't bear it, stepped forward to put away the jade shoes, and said with a smile: "The peony bar is ready, girls should go to the table!"

Baochai and Shi Xiangyun knew that it was Xiren who was trying to rescue them, so they took Jia Baoyu out of Yihong Courtyard on the left and right, followed by Xiangling, Shishu, Qingwen, Sheyue and other girls with some dignity Little girls like Si'er and Chunyan were left to guard the door in Yihong Courtyard.

The little maids were very playful, and they couldn't control their legs, so they slipped out to play by themselves after a while, and threw the huge yard to the rough envoy.

A short walk down from the Qinfang Pavilion is the Peony Lane. There are three small open halls in the red incense garden, with cool breeze blowing on three sides, tortoiseshell feasts, and hibiscus on the mattress. It is full of flowers, surrounded by red and green phase.

Everyone insisted on asking Xiuyan and Baoyu to sit at the head. Tanchun looked at the dishes on the long table, pointed to a steamed bun with crab roe and Yunying noodles, and said to the little girl, "Send these two dishes to the lotus root and Xiangxie to uncle. Wife, concubine and grandma use it."

Xiuyan and Baochai hurriedly stopped, and Tanchun said: "If it's on the side, I don't have to give it away, but these two dishes are not available outside, and they are delicacies that our family has figured out by ourselves, even the old lady praised them very much. Besides, it's not the time to eat crabs, so the crab roe steamed buns are exquisitely made, which is even more rare."

Jia Baoyu forgot the pain when the scar healed, and nodded quickly: "This is a trick that the outside kitchen came up with when the big sister came home to visit her relatives. It's not as good as the taste outside."

For a while, Lu Shi and Aunt Xue sent a girl to thank her, which is not to be mentioned.Because Shi Xiangyun didn't think it was lively, he clamored for a drinking order, and those who lost would have to drink as a punishment.After a few rounds, it was Shi Xiangyun who ate the most.

Xiuyan secretly noticed the blush on Shi Xiangyun's face, sure enough, after a while, Shi Xiangyun's body swayed from side to side, his tongue was tied, and while everyone was drinking and punching in the chaos, his feet fluttered out of the red incense garden.

Because Mrs. Jia Muwang was not at home and had no control, these people took pleasure at will, shouting three and four, seven and eight.The hall is full of red flying and green dancing, jade moving and pearls shaking.After noon, everyone was inevitably smelled of alcohol, so they discussed and dispersed, but suddenly Shi Xiangyun was nowhere to be seen.

Xiuyan knew what was going on, so she quietly pulled Xue Baochai out of the red incense garden first, to the other end of Qinfang Pavilion.

The two sat on a rail next to the water, and they sat down with a jiao handkerchief. Xiuyan asked softly: "I heard that the precious man has a happy pulse, but has Aunt Xuan entered the palace to see?"

"She was closely guarded by the concubine Yuan. She only sent an unremarkable little eunuch to find us Xue Bian, saying that life in the palace was difficult, and she didn't have any freedom at all. She used medicine to repair and relieve miscarriage every day," Xue Baochai said. He let out a long sigh: "I will not say anything against my sister Xing, now our family is only worried that the mother will kill the donkey and leave the mother to keep the child!"

Xue Baochai only saw Concubine Yuan once, and she glanced at her from a distance when she was visiting her relatives, but Xue Baochai's heart was deeply impressed by that high-ranking woman.

A female history, who has achieved the position of one of the four concubines in a few years, how can her hands be clean?What she borrowed was nothing more than the stomach of a precious person.

"I wrote to my sister two days ago, and there is something worrying about me. The Mei family popped up out of nowhere, holding the token of my second uncle and Mei Hanlin back then, forcing the Xue family to marry a daughter."

Xiuyan sneered, "Isn't their family busy with the empress dowager's niece?"

"You are so smart and still don't understand? Even a dull person like me can see clearly. Once Concubine Xu dies, the status of the queen mother will be worrying. It is too late for the Mei family to hide from the princess, let alone be a door-to-door son-in-law. The Mei family is also afraid of the queen mother." The ashes are resurgent, and in the future, the princess will make trouble for them, so she will make up her mind to make our family a scapegoat and force us to fulfill the marriage contract."

Xiuyan secretly said: This Mei family is so shameless!They knew that Xue Baoqin had already entered the palace and became a concubine, but they still clench their mouths tightly, didn't they just come here for Xue Baochai?
"Have you met people from the Mei family before?"

"I don't go out of the gate, how can it be possible?" Xue Baochai suddenly paused, a trace of confusion flashed in his eyes, and then he looked at Xing Xiuyan uncertainly: "That time when we came back from Fangfeiyuan, Brother Bao took us to Hanbaoxuan, I bumped into a reckless young man, now that I think about it, Brother Bao’s face is indeed a bit obedient, as if he knew him, but he didn’t want to see him very much.”

Xiuyan thought for a while before saying: "Don't be too busy, so as not to mess yourself up, I will help you find out after my house goes, maybe the Mei family also has something hard to tell."

As the two were talking, the few people who came up from the south bridge were Lin Zhixiao's family and five or six old wives.

Lin Zhixiao's family was afraid that Mrs. Wang would not be there, and those maids were young, disobedient to Tanchun and others' control and restraint, drinking wantonly, losing their dignity, and secondly, they were afraid of being called upon by serious business, so they turned around to talk.

At this moment, when he was coming out of the Hongxiang Garden, he saw Miss Bao and Miss Xing sitting by the bridge, followed by the girls of the two girls from a distance. Lin Zhixiao's family hurried over to say hello.

Xing and Chai knew that she had a lot of things to do, so they didn't stay any longer. The sun was already hanging in the sky, and Baochai was thinking about Aunt Xue, so she went to Ouxiangxie to find her first.

"Please, sister, tell mom for me. I'll go to Xiaoxiang hall to pick up sister Lin and go there."

Xiuyan brought Meilian, Miying and Fangguan strolling towards the Xiaoxiang Pavilion.Turning around the rockery, she suddenly heard the sound of laughter, Xiuyan didn't pay attention at first, who would have thought that just after turning around the rockery, a figure suddenly bumped into herself.

"Ouch!" The two fell into a ball, Meilian and Mio were shocked, and quickly pushed away the woman in the red dress who was sitting on the girl's calf.

"Girl, are you hurt?" Mio didn't dare to touch, just now when the two of them bumped into each other, the girl almost sat on the girl's calf, why didn't it make her worry!

(End of this chapter)